What are you watching?

[Griffin NoName]

TV documentary "Stephen Fry - 50 not out"

[Sibling Chatty]

Planning to watch the classic "I Was A Male War Bride" shortly.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041498/

this, Father Goose and a few others are among my favorite films. It's the Cary Grant thing, you know...

[Griffin NoName]

Robert de Niro in Hide and Seek. So far it's slow and dated. But I can't resist mystery.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch...


The commercials are just on, so I figured I could make a few posts in between...

(great movie btw)

[Griffin NoName]

Fahrenheit 9/11

[Swatopluk]

Planning to watch the classic "I Was A Male War Bride" shortly.

Although that is in my collection, I have not seen it yet
The second Hammer Noir Collection Box has arrived today.

Just came form the cinema: Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (Ways to Strength and Beauty) (1925)
It's not a Riefenstahl (although many would believe that)

[Sibling Chatty]

Watching a canine con-man try to convince me that he NEEDS some watermelon.

(He got some.)

[Griffin NoName]

Completed watching Fahrenheit 9/11. Had to take breaks. sort of touch base breaks. I delayed watching it til now as I thought that would be how it would be for me, and also I wanted as much perspective as possible, my own, with some distance behind them.

before I say anything else, purely cenematically it deserved the awards IMO. also as documentary. also as political documentary. it was interesting, innovative, and effective on all those fronts.

I found not being a US citizen a handicap. Some things I simply dont have enough background/knowledge on.

As a persuasive polemic it didn't work for me (which is not to say I disagreed). I was too aware of those aspects all the time and floundered around not knowing how to evaluate what felt like propaganda. I found myself watching critically, wondering how was that edited, what if a different cut had been made, why was that particular shot included. As a piece of cinama that forces one to these constant thoughts it was quite brilliant. Another award I would give it.

Now, if that IN ITSELF means that many many others, not just me, will for evermore feel those feelings more than they did before, think those thoughts, question even more than they already questioned, then it deserves another award for --- > improving the mind >>?? seeing anew >>   a whole load of categories.

I'm not sure it works as propaganda precisely because it is so clearly propoganda. It can never be just putting the other story; the style and editing puts paid to that. Moore says at one point soemthing about you want to see the data we based this on - I'd go further. I believe a complete record of the verified sources (meetings transcripts etc not the personal voices) would do a lot to establish where accuracy is irrefutable and would be very powerful.

And finally, left with the question do we need war to pay for society......... that's another thread I think.

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Now watching Piers Morgan interview Naomi Capmbell.  A leap from the masses to the minute. Great fun.

[anthrobabe]

I'm watching "can man" fish for cans in the trash right out front.
He's really a fairly nice guy- he's been living just off campus for about 4 years now-- of course is being homeless really living? He does have some mental issues- and on occasion his former daughter in law actually appears and puts him in the hospital and gets him on meds- but as soon as he's out he's back off the meds and back on the street. Sometimes I wish people could be legally compelled to take their meds- but then I understand the dangers of a medicated society- it's just sort of sad to see this man(about age 60) like this because he doesn't really need to be institutionalized but he does need his medication.
so there he is- there he goes and life goes on-- I guess that's the best we can do.

[Sibling Chatty]

When he turns 65 (or 67, depending) they'll slap him into a nursing home, where he'll be medicated regularly.

Because, you KNOW it's more cost effective to let him live on the streets until then, even if he's ill or if he suffers. Hey, maybe he'll die before he starts really costing the government more money!!

Frickin' Ronald Reagan and his 'mainstreaming' the mentally ill and the mentally challenged into society...

[anthrobabe]

Oh I know

it's sort of sad/funny how it is his former DIL that is the one who takes any care of him. she lives up north but comes to LR from time to time- and she finds him and sees about him- but his son who is here doesn't.

Maybe what hurts the most is that I know he's been in the VA(veterans hospital) before--- so he's somehow service connected (maybe not the mental disease) but he is some sort of veteran and why the hell is he on the street. He will land in a VA nursing home soon I think- hope it's a good one. He's got to be getting to that age.

SORRY all and thanks for letting me ramble (I know you could kill me sometimes)

Now I'm watching the cars line up at the bank across the way to get their business done by noon (it's 11:37), quite interesting the jockeying for position. But at this bank they only have about 2 people for 5 lanes so no matter what lane you'll be there for a while 

[Griffin NoName]

Just finished watching The Right Tempatation

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I have yet to want to kill you, Anthro. I usually find it interesting, actually.

Men in Black, unfortunately.

[Sibling Chatty]

ABabe, the rambles are neede for our mental stability, so that we don't go off and start randomly shooting at Congress and the Administration for gutting Veteran's programs, benefits, TriCare, all military spending on software (people) in favor of spending huge sums on hardware. (Money from which lines their pockets, and those of their friends.) Then again, it also keeps things mixed up!!

Watching videos on You Tube...
Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOHbq8s92Q
We the People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc85RLEawqg
Rufus Thomas (and Dave Sanborn) Walkin' the Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljrTtfJ9XY
Rufus' original...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AZNywvF-s

[Swatopluk]

Lst time I switched on the PC on my desk (the one with the DVD drive) I watched the bonus material to "Arthur and the Minimoys".
How does Mia Farrow manage to look that young?
And Freddy Highmore is sooo cute!